Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Cleo E. Harter

Ground Crew on Strange CargoTinian Island

Los Alamos, NMWendover, UT
509th Composite GroupManhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran
The Strange Cargo

Cleo E. Harter served as a sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was a member of the ground crew regularly assigned to the B-29 Strange Cargo.

Related Profiles

Thomas W. Wright

K-25 Plant

Attended Yale University.

Chester J. Scibisz

Los Alamos, NM

D. R. Harper

Oak Ridge, TN

Harper worked for Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation.

Julia E. Freeman

Chicago, IL

Julia Elaine Freeman graduated high school early at age 16. She was also the only African American woman in her high school graduating class of 1940.